John D. Haynes House

The John D. Haynes House is a private residence in Fort Wayne, Indiana designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The house is a small and modest Usonian design in Chicago Common Brick, Red Tidewater Cypress with gravity heating. The gallery is offset to meet the rear of the great room at its center, rather than typically to one side. A music room and three bedrooms drop off this gallery. The plan thus generated is an outside T, with great room facing southwest and southeast, bedrooms looking southeast to the morning sun. The gabled roofing is asymmetrical. Plans for a fourth bedroom off the back of the gallery, asked for when Mrs. Haynes again became pregnant, and tool storage room plus bathhouse and swimming pool at the music room were never realized. With a family grown too large for this compact house, Haynes built an interesting, if non-Wrightian, circular home on an adjacent site. The house is located just outside of the Wildwood Park development which was originally laid out by the noted American landscape architect Arthur Asahel Shurcliff. Mayor Tom Henry made the property a Local Historic District in April 2008.

References

• Storrer, William Allin. The Frank Lloyd Wright Companion. University Of Chicago Press, 2006, ISBN 0226776212 (S.323)
• Frank Lloyd Wright Complete Works 1943–1959, by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer and Peter Gössel (editor) (2009, Taschen; ISBN 978-3-8228-5770-0). First in a series of three monographs featuring all of Wright's 1,100 designs, both realized and unrealized.

External links

• House website
• Haynes House on peterbeers.net
• Wildwood Park Community Association